Head coach Sean Lynn says he’s nonetheless seeing the positives regardless of Wales' slim WXV defeat to USA.
Wales had gone into the sport stuffed with confidence after their eight-try mauling of South Africa, however failed to supply a repeat efficiency in entrance of the Cardiff Arms Park devoted.
The primary half was encouraging sufficient, with Wales clawing again a 14-point deficit, however hopes of a second-half resurgence had been short-lived amid a string of particular person errors that allowed .
However as Wales head into their week off forward of subsequent month's double-header towards Japan, Lynn mentioned he has seen sufficient progress.
"I noticed some grit, I noticed some effort there," he instructed BBC Sport.
"Earlier than, after we had been 21-7 down, I might have seen heads drop, however we're in a superb place and got here again. Now it's about us studying see video games off and going again to the straightforward issues we're doing effectively."
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Lynn had hopes of creating it three wins on the bounce after the summer time's victory over the Barbarians, however noticed Wales fall agonisingly quick towards a facet ranked 5 locations above them at sixth on the planet.
"Once we got here into it [pre-season] at first of July, we mentioned we're going to be a aggressive 80-minute group… we did that at the moment," he mentioned.
"Disgrace we simply didn't provide you with the penalty, perhaps on the finish, however we would have liked to be higher elsewhere across the park.
"We have to have a look at ourselves and particular person errors; we are able to't play Check match rugby if we make these particular person errors, and everyone knows that.
"We simply couldn't hold the ball; we had alternatives to get out of our 22, we had alternatives to enter their 22 and put strain on."
Wales co-captain Kate Williams was in tears of pleasure final week, however mentioned the group was "deflated" after their USA displaying.
"As a group, we had been there on the sixtieth minute; we simply wanted to execute and we didn't," she mentioned.
"What occurs then is you're simply one another, as a result of it's a mistake right here, a mistake there; we simply wanted to come back collectively and do what we're good at, which is being bodily and taking it to them.
"This may sound like an enormous assertion, nevertheless it didn't really feel like a recreation that they out and out gained towards us; it felt like a recreation that we misplaced, and that's simply actually irritating."
Wales can have every week to replicate on such frustrations earlier than returning to camp to arrange for subsequent month's journey to Japan, the place they face the Sakura Fifteen in two Checks on 24 and 31 October.
